When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.

He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.